Coordinating Aircraft During NASA Airborne Science Field Campaigns

-­ The NASA Real Time Mission Monitor (RTMM) is a situational awareness decision-support tool that integrates real time aircraft tracks, aircraft waypoints, satellite imagery, radar products, surface observations, model output parameters and airborne remote sensing variables in an easy to use and view web-based application. RTMM optimizes real time decision-making for mission scientists, pilots, mission managers, instrument scientists and program managers through the delivery and display of upto-date mission information (e.g., the weather, spacecraft, and the location, altitude and heading of the aircraft). The second generation version of RTMM is now fully integrated into a web browser portal and no longer relies on the standalone Google Earth application. The Real Time Mission Monitor is a proven tool having been used in many field experiments from arctic forest fire missions to hurricane eye penetrations as well as tracking the oil slick from British Petroleum (BP) Deepwater Horizon oil well blowout.